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  • Collection: Members

Member number: 402
Date elected: 10/15/1866

Description: John Lort was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1773, the same year as his partnership with Thomas Nevell. The partners were paid 47 pounds 13 shillings 10 pence for work performed at Carpenters' Hall that was then under…
Member number: 95*
Birth date: 1/1/1752
Date elected: 1/1/1773

Member number: 385
Birth date: 1/1/1810
Date elected: 4/15/1859

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Description: William Lownes was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company prior to 1768. From 1773 through 1775 he was elected a Philadelphia City Assessor and was probably actively floowing his craft inasmuch as he took several apprentices in the early…
Member number: 67*

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Description: Benjamin Loxley was a prominent master builder who, according to his obituary, was conspicuous for talents, ingenuity and industry; as a citizen, distinguished for active participation and usefulness; and as a man, for integrity and the faithful…
Member number: 24*
Birth date: 12/20/1720

Description: Reese Loyd was a master builder and among the earliest Carpenters' Company members listed by The Company in 1786, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to confirm that date. He also was an early (1731) subscriber of the Library…
Member number: 15*
Birth date: 1/11709

Description: Jacob Librand, also known as Lybrand, was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. He was also a member of the Columbia Fire Company, founded in 1796 for residents of the Eighth and Cherry Streets area. Biography from Philadelphia…
Member number: 200*
Date elected: 1/1/1796

Description: Joseph Lyndall was a house carpenter elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1814. Members of his family were professional cabinetmakers. He resided on Lombard street above 9th street. Lyndall died in 1822, leaving behind a wife and…
Member number: 262*
Date elected: 1/1/1814

Description: Jacob Mansfield was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1799. Following his death in 1803, the Company provided financial assistance for his children enabling them to go to school.Biography fromPhiladelphia Architects and…
Member number: 204*
Date elected: 1/1/1799

Member number: 407
Birth date: 1/1/1823
Date elected: 4/15/1867

Member number: 386
Date elected: 1/21/1861

Member number: 457
Date elected: 5/2/1883

Description: Josiah Matlack was a Dock Ward master builder who became a member of the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1769 and in 1786 signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company when the two companies of master carpenters merged. He was an "encourager" of…
Member number: 136*
Birth date: 1/1/1749
Date elected: 1/16/1786

Description: Caleb Maule was a master builder and lumber merchant elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1817. He lived at 93 Callowhill street in 1814 but moved to various other locations throughout the rest of his life.( See his file at the…
Member number: 275*
Birth date: 9/22/1790
Date elected: 1/1/1817

Description: Uncle to the more famous John McArthur, Jr., John McArthur was a master builder in Philadelphia. According to the sparse biographical information found, he was born in Oban, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States when he was 30 years old. His…
Member number: 363*
Date elected: 1/1/1851

Member number: 454
Date elected: 8/3/1881

Member number: 475*
Date elected: 1/16/1888

Member number: 478
Date elected: 8/1/1888

Description: Francis McClester was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1785, but was never an active member. He was proposed by Robert Allison. In 1779 following the recapture of Philadelphia from the British, McClester was provided materials…
Member number: 151*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Description: John McClure was a master builder of Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1839. He served on the Carpenters' Company Library Committee from 1854-1857. In 1835, McClure was listed at 64 Spruce street in the City Directory. The Directory…
Member number: 341
Date elected: 1/1/1839

Description: Samuel McClure was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1774. For a brief period (1781-1782) he served The Company as a Warden. In 1779 he was assessed for a tax of 1 pound and 10 shillings for the state tax in the Dock…
Member number: 102*
Date elected: 1/1/1774

Description: William McDowell was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1782, but inactive until marked off The Company roles in 1790. It is possible that he was the same William McDowell who served as a lieutenant in the 1st and 2nd…
Member number: 108*
Date elected: 1/3/1782

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Member number: 217*
Date elected: 1/1/1801

Description: A master builder and member of the Carpenters' Company, Charles McIntyre a builder in the mid 19th century. Little else is known about him other than his work address of 18 Gray's Alley and his home address of 160 South Front Street listed in the…
Member number: 367
Date elected: 1/1/1852

Description: Malcom McLeod was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1796. An statement on his death in a newspaper says McLeod was a native of Scotland and died at the age of 80. This puts his birth year around 1761. He lived the majority of his…
Member number: 195*
Date elected: 1/1/1796

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Description: William McMullin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company c.1768 (records unclear) and then dropped from the membership rolls in 1770.Written by Roger W. Moss, from thePhiladelphia Architects and Builderswebsite.
Member number: 73*
Date elected: 1/1/1768

Description: William McMullin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1800. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.Written by Roger W. Moss.
Member number: 212*
Date elected: 1/1/1800

Member number: 419
Date elected: 1/15/1872

Member number: 467*
Date elected: 11/4/1885

Description: George G. Meyers was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company of Philadelphia in 1833. Meyers served as a Company's Warden in 1843 as well as three terms on the Managing Committee in the 1840s and 1850s. In 1845, He was listed in the…
Member number: 306
Date elected: 1/1/1833

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Description: Thomas Middleton was a master builder believed to have come to Philadelphia in 1762 from Monmouth County, New Jersey. He signed the articles of The Carpenters' Company in 1770 and died the following year. Written by Roger W. Moss, from…
Member number: 78*
Birth date: 1/1/1716
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Description: Benjamin Mifflin was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company by 1770, although no Company records prior to the 1760s survive to provide a date. He was often absent from Philadelphia, and references to his working in northern Delaware…
Member number: 86*
Date elected: 1/1/1770

Description: Master builder and merchant John Mifflin was the son of John Mifflin of Kent County (DE) who married Hannah Taylor in 1747. Elected to The Carpenters' Company well before the date of earliest surviving records, Mifflin was totally inactive in Company…
Birth date: 1/1/1720
Date elected: 1/1/1760

Member number: 88*
Date elected: 1/1/1771

Member number: 387a
Date elected: 7/30/1862

Description: John Adam Miskey was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1835. The City Directory for the same year lists him as a carpenter living at Apple street above Mechanic street. Miskey died in 1882 and was buried in Woodside…
Member number: 326
Birth date: 10/13/1807
Date elected: 1/1/1835

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Description: Benjamin Mitchell was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company in 1770; and when that company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he signed the articles. Written by Roger W. Moss, from thePhiladelphia Architects and…
Member number: 141*
Date elected: 1/16/1786

Description: James Mitchell was a master builder elected to the Carpenters’ Company in 1809. He was probably the son of Company member Benjamin Mitchell who resided at 229 Arch street. In 1799, James Mitchell resided at 231 Arch street but had moved to the corner…
Member number: 243*
Date elected: 1/1/1809

Description: Bethuel A. Moore was a master builder elected to the Carpenters' Company in Philadelphia in 1829. He resided at Carlton Square below 12th street. Bethuel Moore died in 1851.Biography from thePhiladelphia Architects and Buildings, a project of…
Member number: 300*
Date elected: 1/1/1829

Member number: 381
Date elected: 1/15/1855

Description: Joseph Moore was a master builder in Philadelphia elected to the Carpenters' Company in 1834. In 1835, he was listed as a carpenter at 12th below Spruce street. Later City Directories have three Joseph Moores listed as carpenters. Moore served the…
Member number: 318*
Date elected: 1/1/1834

Description: William Moore, an unfortunately common name in late eighteenth-century Philadelphia, was elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1784 and by 1790 marked in The Company records as excluded, probably for failure to pay dues. In 1770 he witnessed the will…
Member number: 111*
Date elected: 1/3/1784

Description: Robert Morrell was a master builder who joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company c.1773; and when that company merged with The Carpenters' Company in 1786, he signed the articles. In 1805, a carpenter named Robert Morrell is listed as residing at…
Member number: 131*
Birth date: 1/1/1752
Date elected: 1/16/1786

Description: Joseph Morris was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1792, serving as Warden (1794-97) and Vice-President (1821-23). He was a director of the Philadelphia Contributionship (1809-1817) and first President of the Columbia Fire…
Member number: 164*
Birth date: 1/1/1770
Date elected: 1/1/1792

Description: Richard Mosley was a master builder who served his apprenticeship with Benjamin Worrell, gaining his freedom in 1774. Shortly thereafter he joined the Friendship Carpenters' Company; and when that company joined with The Carpenters' Company in 1786,…
Member number: 132*
Date elected: 1/1/1786

Member number: 404
Date elected: 1/23/1867

Description: Edward Mulock was a master builder elected to The Carpenters' Company in 1795. The following year he was paid for 218-1/2 days work at Congress Hall. Biography from Philadelphia Architects and Builders, a project of the Athenaeum of Philadelphia.…
Member number: 177*
Date elected: 1/1/1794

Member number: 462*
Date elected: 9/10/1883

Member number: 494*
Date elected: 11/13/1896

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Description: The master builder/architect Thomas Nevell, who designed the most famous Philadelphia country house--Mt. Pleasant (1763)--and founded a school of architecture in Philadelphia (1771), was the son of Thomas and Mary Nevell. By 1730 both of his parents…
Member number: 35*
Birth date: 1/1/1721
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